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Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready

Emerging bio-, nano-, and cyber-technologies are enabling criminals to target anyone, anywhere, at scale.

October 21, 2019

On Observation and Imagination

Exploring Galway Kinnell’s poem, “The Gray Heron.”

October 16, 2019

The Implant That Can Control Your Brain

This nanoscale device meshes seamlessly with your neurons.

October 16, 2019

Reason Won’t Save Us

It’s time to accept the limits of how we think.

October 16, 2019

Physics Nobel Honors Early Universe and Exoplanet Discoveries

The astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won half of the prize for their 1995 discovery of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a nearby star. The cosmologist James Peebles won the other half for work exploring the structure of the universe.

October 12, 2019

Nobel Awarded for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Portable Power

John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing lithium-ion batteries, "the hidden workhorses of the mobile era."

October 12, 2019

Nobel Prize Awarded for Discoveries on How Cells Adapt to Oxygen

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honors work elucidating how cells adjust to low oxygen levels.

October 12, 2019

Why We’re Drawn Into Darkness

Author Robert MacFarlane on the awe and horror of subterranean places.

October 9, 2019